Topic: - on October 30, 2002 at 10:24:19 PM CET
Intelligent life might be more likely in a Universe in flux
Ever since Copernicus put the Sun, rather than Earth, at the centre of the Universe, scientists and philosophers have suspected that there's nothing special about our cosmic time and place. But two physicists now suggest otherwise.
Galileo's Siderius Nuncius, 1610
¬> <a href="www.nature.com"target="_blank">Nature
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Topic: - on October 30, 2002 at 9:07:49 PM CET
Researchers sympathise with male witches
Academics say historians have ignored the suffering of thousands of male witches. Canadians Andrew Gow and Lara Apps say they have been marginalised by researchers who have focussed on the persecution of female witches. They claim 25% of the estimated 60,000 witches executed in Europe between 1450 and 1750 were men.
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Topic: SCIENCE - on October 30, 2002 at 10:32:42 AM CET
Fahndung nach der zweiten Erde
Dass es im All weitere erdähnliche Planeten gibt, halten Astronomen für sehr wahrscheinlich. In wenigen Jahren sollen Satelliten solche Welten erstmals aufspüren - den Anfang macht die europäische Corot-Mission.
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Topic: - on October 29, 2002 at 11:39:45 PM CET
Indische Forscher berichten von Mikroorganismen-Fund im Weltraum
Bakterien leben demnach in 41 Kilometer Höhe. Indische Wissenschafter haben nach eigenen Angaben Kleinstlebewesen im Weltraum aufgespürt. Außerhalb der Erdatmosphäre genommene Proben hätten Mikroorganismen aufgewiesen, meldete die Nachrichtenagentur Press Trust of India am Montag. Sollten Biologen die Ergebnisse bestätigen, sei belegt, "dass es Leben außerhalb der Erde gibt", sagte Jayant Narlikar von der Indischen Organisation für Weltraumforschung demnach in der zentralindischen Stadt Nagpur - was natürlich nicht mit "außerirdischem Leben" gleichzusetzen ist.
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Topic: - on October 29, 2002 at 11:24:11 PM CET
Napoleon starb nicht an Arsen
Der Tod Napoleons beschäftigt die Franzosen noch immer: Fiel der Kaiser einem Giftanschlag zum Opfer? Mit einer neuen Haaranalyse will eine Zeitschrift jetzt die Mordtheorie widerlegt haben.
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Topic: - on October 29, 2002 at 12:48:26 AM CET
UK firms join forces to lead in floppy TV screens
Two British companies said they would join forces to become a world leader in the technology of glowing plastics, which by 2005 should yield the first roll-up computer screens and TVs.
Cambridge Display Technology (CDT) announced the acquisition of the Oxford-based research activities of rival Opsys, giving it control of another major method to create organic light emitting diodes (OLED). Financial details were not disclosed.
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Topic: - on October 29, 2002 at 12:37:05 AM CET
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Topic: - on October 28, 2002 at 2:51:59 AM CET
Jung gewohnt, alt getan
Auch nach zehn Jahren hat eine Kalifornische Seelöwin das "Lesen" nicht verlernt: Robbenweibchen Rio beherrschte trotz zehnjähriger Lesepause immer noch ein Kunststück, bei dem sie sich Buchstaben und Zahlen merken, sie unterscheiden und später wiedererkennen musste.
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Topic: - on October 27, 2002 at 12:04:01 PM CET
WORLD DATABASE OF HAPPINESS
Continuous register of scientific research on subjective appreciation of life. The World Database of Happiness is an ongoing register of scientific research on subjective appreciation of life. It brings together findings that are scattered throughout many studies and provides a basis for meta-analytical studies.
Directed by Ruut Veenhoven, Erasmus University Rotterdam.
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Topic: - on October 27, 2002 at 12:01:13 PM CET
Seismic detonations planned
Scientists plan to shake things up a bit Monday near Marked Tree, when they detonate a 2,600-pound explosion within the New Madrid Seismic Zone. Through that explosion and a 5,000-pound explosion near Mooring, Tenn., scientists from the U.S. Geological Survey and the Center for Earthquake Research and Information at the University of Memphis hope to understand how the deep sand and clay in the Mississippi embayment affect the way seismic waves travel and therefore, how the ground shakes during an earthquake.
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Topic: - on October 26, 2002 at 12:38:08 PM CEST
Spintronics
Microelectronic devices that function by using the spin of the electron are a nascent multibillion-dollar industry--and may lead to quantum microchips. As rapid progress in the miniaturization of semiconductor electronic devices leads toward chip features smaller than 100 nanometers in size, device engineers and physicists are inevitably faced with the looming presence of quantum mechanics--that counterintuitive and sometimes mysterious realm of physics wherein wavelike properties dominate the behavior of electrons.
¬> <a href="www.sciam.com"target="_blank">Scientific American
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Topic: - on October 25, 2002 at 8:00:11 PM CEST
IBM Builds Circuit with Carbon Monoxide Molecules
IBM has been working on molecular computing for years as it tries to find an alternative to silicon-based semiconductors in modern computers. One circuit is so small that 190 billion could fit on a standard pencil-top eraser, IBM said.
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